"I think I am very fat," says Sakiko Ohno, a cosmetics wholesaler in Tokyo. "If I have a Starbucks muffin, that night I will skip rice and have vegetables." As a group, Japanese women, who were thin ...

TOKYO — As women in the United States and across the industrialized world get fatter, most Japanese women are getting skinnier. Still, many view themselves as overweight. “I am quite fat, actually,” ...

When it comes to setting longevity records, the Japanese are the best in the world. A nation of rice farmers and fishermen, Japanese over the centuries seemed to have cracked the code to a long, ...

'Rather than trying to change other people's minds, I would like to help change the minds of bigger women, to help them feel good about themselves' You can save this article by registering for free ...

Happiness in the real world is largely the result of prioritizing what’s really important for you, going after those things, and not being too picky about everything else. Of course, when you’re ...